Катрин Панколь
arbaletova — 12.12.2013
И вот вам еще текст от Катрин Панколь. На сей раз это ее
автобиография. Кому там нужно было делать домашнее задание по
английскому языку? Варя, это не только для меня, но и для
тебя. Знаешь, я раньше в дневники выписывала фразы, мысли, цитаты
свои и чужие. Сейчас в эпоху "копи-паста" это еще проще ))) О, я
чувствую себя старой. Старый октябренок учит тебя жить, а ты
мужественно терпишь, спасибо тебе за чуткость, дорогая!
С тобой невероятно уютно, дом для этого и создан, ты часть
семьи, со всеми моими живыми и мертвыми, выдуманными и рожденными
обычным человеческим способом ))) Я надеюсь, тебя такое
родство не пугает )))
Ну все, занавес поднимается, на сцене еще одна смелая
женщина-писатель Катрин Панколь.
"
I was born in Morocco, in Casablanca. I grew up under the
palm trees of Media.
I was five when I arrived in France. Studied literature (a
Masters and two years of a PhD in modern French literature), was a
French and Latin teacher, did some odd jobs and then one day, with
a wave of a magic wand, I became a journalist !
I write for a magazine (Paris Match, then Cosmopolitan).
I
write for magazines...My first ever words printed in black and
white.
A publisher notices me and asks me to write a novel.
A novel
? Me ? Impossible !
The novel will be is “ Me First ”, in 1979. The sky falls on
my head, success comes showering down. I head to New York. A change
of city, a change of country. Travelling, living life, having a
good time, getting to know a different world. Writing still seems
as impossible as ever. But literature has kept a hold on me and “
The Barbarian ” comes out in 1981. Then, while still in New York, I
write “ Call Me Scarlett” and “ Cruel Men Aren’t So Easy To Find”.
" A cruel man is hard to find "
I’m quite taken by writing and by the lifestyle that goes with
it. I’ve no choice any more. It’s the only thing I know how to do.
Apart from having children.
First a girl, then a boy. I get
married, get divorced, I move in, I move out.
All fairly ordinary,
unfortunately!
I continue to write. Writing becomes my raison d’être. I
discover that it is hard and that it is easy. I discover that time
can go by so quickly or so slowly. That I feel like stopping or
never stopping…
I discover another world. I travel inside my head and that’s
fine…
I write books (“Seen From The Outside”, “ One Last Dance”, “
Such A Beautiful Image ”, “ I Was Here First ”, “ Rising Gently
Through A Vast Love”, “A Faraway Man ”, “ Kiss Me ”).
Screenplays.
And articles. For Paris Match. I get to see the world, different
people. I spend ten days in Manchester contemplating Cantona’s calf
muscles and a week on death row in an American prison.
I interview
Reagan, Jospin, Chirac and Meryl Streep, Vanessa Paradis and Louise
Brooks. I fill myself with my meetings and my travels. You always
gain and learn from observing. I love learning. I love life,
friendship, chance encounters, travelling, the unexpected; I open
my arms out wide, even when I feel like closing them. Everything
amazes me, I’m never indifferent…
I make Paul-Emile Victor’s saying
my own :
“Living means waking up in the middle of the night with a
sense of impatience about the coming day, it means marvelling at
how the daily miracle can reproduce itself for us once more, it
means being sleepless with joy."
http://www.katherine-pancol.com